“We are in the Superintendence of Electricity and Fuels (SEC) supervising the situation of electricity cuts in the face of the rains. We can confirm that there are 159,149 customers without electricity, of which 68,179 correspond to the MRI. Remember that they can report on the SEC website,” said Claudio Huepe, Minister of Energy on Saturday through Twitter. The figure was falling during the day.
This Saturday, July 9, the frontal system announced by the Meteorological Directorate of Chile began that will bring rain, wind and snow in the mountain range throughout the weekend.
The National Emergency Office of the Ministry of the Interior (Onemi) initiated a preventive early warning, the director of the RM, Miguel Muñoz, assured that they do not have “any declared emergency, we cannot prevent the events from happening, emergencies we will surely have. We have arranged this Committee for Risk and Disaster Management for THE RM to coordinate, put all the resources and capacity of the system to be able to respond as quickly as possible and deliver aid to people in need.”
“We want to call on citizens to stay in their homes as much as possible, there will be high problems of bad weather,” said Constanza Martínez, presidential delegate of the RM.
“There are many people who live in tents in the Metropolitan Region, boys, girls, today there are more than 230 shelters with available spaces there is capacity to accommodate them, because it will rain a lot,” said the governor of the RM, Claudio Orrego.
It is worth mentioning that the Ministry of Social Development activated new emergency shelters for homeless people. You can alert the number 800 104 777 option 0 and in desarrollosocialyfamilia.gob.cl.
Due to the arrival of the bad weather front, in the Valparaíso Region, the Navy issued a “Abnormal Swells” warning.
According to the authorities, there have been wind gusts that have even reached over 70 kilometers per hour in the coastal area of the region.
Commander Gonzalo Concha, of the Meteorological Center of Valparaíso, told Meganoticias that “as a result of the passage of the Frontal System, strong swells have been recorded on the coast, between the regions of Coquimbo and Los Lagos. Regarding the intensity of the wind, so far the maximum intensity of 42 knots has been reached, equivalent to 78 kilometers per hour.”
“The ports remain closed due to this condition of bad weather and storm surges … We maintain the recommendation not to approach sectors of rocks, “added the uniformed.
From the Navy they also commented that the waves could exceed five meters in height during this day.
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